Easy pickings: Youths investigate vehicles for valuables in a Frankston South street last week. They wear hoodies and carry rags to wipe off fingerprints. FRANKSTON detectives are reeling in the wake of 53 night-time car break-ins last week resulting in the loss of dozens of wallets, handbags and other valuables – all crimes, they say,.. read more →

A thief who broke into a fast food outlet fled with nothing more than keys to an outdoor toilet. CCTV footage shows the man dropping into Melbourne’s Frankston Dandenong store from the roof as cardboard boxes rain down around him. Despite going to the trouble of removing the roof tiles to break into the store,.. read more →

AN apologetic robber has gone on a three-day crime spree in a stolen car — often bungling his desperate attempts to steal cash — in Melbourne’s northwestern suburbs. Police have released images of a man they wish to speak to following a series of criminal offences being reported involving the same car. The man’s escapade.. read more →

Tom Elyas and his wife were alerted to the burglary at 5.15am on Monday as the alarm was sounded when a Nissan Nivara smashed through his shopfront in Greenvale. The couple watched the live feed on their phones, as the thieves made their way over smashed glass and wares, toward the shop’s storage room. Masked.. read more →

The world currently consumes 20 trillion kWh of energy annually. Enough energy to power a single family home for 1.8 billion years or supply energy to a nuclear power plant for 2,300 years (or launch the Falcon 9 rocket seventeen million times). Of all the fossil fuel consumed in the United States, one third is.. read more →

A Mount Eliza man claims he was forced to chase thieves who stole his BMW convertible because police officers could not pursue it themselves. 9NEWS understands police spotted a stolen Ford 4WD several times before it was used to ram a Hog’s Breath Cafe. The teenage occupants of the car were caught on CCTV charging.. read more →

Two police officers have been injured and a man has been charged after a brawl erupted in a Melbourne police station. An argument broke out between two men about 7pm on Tuesday after a group of people attended the Frankston Police Station in relation to an incident in the nearby suburb of Seaford on Sunday.. read more →